Author: Lingling Wei

Plus, questions over the health of China’s leader and tensions over guardrails in the race to dominate AI.

The Chinese leader felt unwell at the recent Brics event in India, reviving worries over who would succeed him.

American dialogue has centered on protecting humanity from the technology, while Beijing is chiefly concerned with safeguarding the Communist Party.

Plus, the U.S. accuses Chinese AI firms of exploiting American models and designates an American scholar held by China as wrongfully detained.

Plus, he left America to build China’s AI, and readers weigh in on how tradition is treated in Taiwan

Decades of separation have produced two very different religious lives on either side of the Taiwan Strait. In Taipei’s crowded temples, a Chinese-born reporter witnesses what was lost.

Plus, China rejects claims it could have warned Nepal earlier of deadly floods and how China weathered the Iran oil shock, in charts.

Leader Xi Jinping has claimed former Premier Zhu Rongji’s legacy of economic opening while suppressing memories of a more candid and less tightly controlled era.

Plus, Beijing accelerates its buildup in space and a drone maker cleans 28 tons of waste from Mount Everest.